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Lonestar1440 4 hours ago

... And what do you think stops them from revoking the passports, today?

Do you think it is Courts and the looming Midterms; or are they just flummoxed by the lack of good surveillance data?

It's really a fantasy and a silly Taboo.

Our Democracy will live or die by politics, not silly rules on data collection at the margins.

dghlsakjg 26 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Global entry privileges have been revoked for people present at protests already based on facial recognition.

Not a fantasy and the taboo has already been broken.

While losing access to global entry without due process isn’t the same thing as revoking a passport, it’s awfully close.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/minnesota...

macintux 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

We’ve never had a central data store that would make it practical to achieve such a feat. Now we have one that could answer questions like this, forever.

Mass surveillance at scale is not a trivial problem to solve, but Flock is both making it happen and making it clear that they are fine with enabling bad actors to take advantage of it.

Lonestar1440 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The FBI has been an IBM customer for a very long time.

Like maybe the "cheap cameras everywhere" part is novel + important, but "central data store" truly is not.

Slippery reasoning like this is how silly taboos get perpetuated.

anigbrowl 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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